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So there may be made medicines from Musk Civit oil made of Bevers stones and Unicorns horn Ivory the Horn and Bone of the Hart are effective against the heart-ach and other affects as are Lemmons Garden Cresses The dolours of the heart are cured by cutting the middle vein The water of the Carbuncle is a most excellent comfortative of the heart half a spoonful of it being taken So terra sigillata Stregonensis the Balsam of sulphur and the spirit of tartar Read Theophrastus tract 3. praeparationum and in the same place tract 5. lib. 1. de signis Zodiaci about the end An Excellent Balsam of Sulphur for the Heart and Lungs â„ž the best yellow Sulphur grind it small and sift it through a fine laune serce or rather which is better Take flowrs of Sulphur and put them in a glass and pour thereon oil of the Salt of tartar made by solution per deliquium a hand-breadth above it set it in gentle heat and in few dayes the Sulphur will dissolve red as bloud pour off the solution into a glass and upon it sprinkle good distilled Vinegar so much as will make all the Sulphur precipitate to the bottom of the glass which it will easily do and that with a profound stink let it well settle then decant off the oil of tartar and dulcifie the Sulphur well then dry it not in the Sun or heat but in a dry air Take the dry Sulphur put it again into a glass and pour upon it a Philosophical spirit of wine let them stand together in gentle heat three dayes in which time the spirit of wine will receive into it the purest part of the Sulphur the excellent tincture of Sulphur decant that extraction and distill it with strong heat in sand so will ascend with the spirit of wine a pleasant odoriferous oil then in very gentle Balneo separate the spirit of wine and the Balsam of Sulphur will remain behind in form of an oil Dose is 6 or 8. drops in a spoonful of wine CHAP. XIX Of the Diseases of the Ventricle THere is a nutritive vertue in the Ventricle because from thence nutriment is derived into the whole body and it disposes the meat and gives it a nutritive faculty The Ventricle is subject and obnoxious to divers diseases which are begot by reason the separation and expulsion are frustrate of which kind are the pains of the Ventricle Etosions Burning Wind Inflammations Fluxes Pinings of which Alexander Benedictus lib. 11. in his Proem and in the Chapters following and in the 12. book through the whole book doth intreat wherefore that the Ventricle be sound great regard is to be had Tobias Hess The seeds of diseases in the anatomy of the Ventricle are rooted for the most part in the superficial sulphureous fetide and excrementitious impurities which for the debility of the in-bred Balm and mechanical spirits by whose ministery the impurities should be expelled and resolved by the accustomed wayes they find convenient and fit Receptacles The seeds of diseases which are planted and rooted in the Ventricle consist in sulphureous and excrementitious Of the seeds of diseases of the Ventricle impurities in which two excrements are mixt namely of Sulphur and Salt which two are in all aliments and are separated from all nature being perfect in vertue and strength These two excrements unless they be mixt and expelled together do interpel and interrupt daily the administration of natural actions because the strength and vertue of nature is diminished Therefore when as they have introduced their roots into the anatomy of the Ventricle they generate diseases If Sulphur be commixt with a tartareous stiptick and alumish excrement The Fever of the Ventricle and filth then Fevers are generated in the Ventricle Of Paracels they are called mitrosulphureous diseases when as Mucilaginous Salt or Tartar alone remains in the Ventricle by continual nutrition at length it produces divers symptoms noted by divers names but altogether rustical and phantastical The rustical are Imbecility Bradypepsia vitiated concoction Bradypepsia is a weakness of digestion when as the Ventricle doth difficulty and slowly concoct and turn aliment into chyle and crudity The phantasie hath begot the distemperature These symptoms have their names from the properties of their roots or causes from which they rise but more rightly they are called mucilaginous and sulphureous diseases from the alumish Vitriol and cacochymical spirits or from biruminous and sandy colours from the properties of the spirits and such like the causes of all symptoms ought to be explained which are superadded to the foresaid diseases of the Ventricle The mechanical spirits being corrupted and the tartareous alumish and stiptical tinctures of the Ventricle being inquinated and depraved they cannot absolve as they ought the separation of the pure from the impure The cause of slow conâ—octions and they perfect very slow concoctions but if those tartareous spirits the authors of Transplantation shall be hotter and do overcome the in-bred spirits by enmity and malice then they produce perfect crudities and keep the mechanical spirit of the Ventricle bound and captive and from hence are begot crudities inflations belching heaviness sloth drowsiness Belching is a violent and sounding expulsion of wind existing in the stomach by the superiour part Nausea or loathing is a frustrate endeavour to vomit The cause of cruditees inflations and belching Vomiting is a violent expulsion of crass and palpable matter which molests the stomach by the superiour parts Sev. p. 278. Orexia Launcing Cardialgia is a pain of the superiour part of the Ventricle when as the supreme Orifice of the Ventricle is molested and offended Bulimus â—anina fames The Bulimia or Dog-like â—â—petite is an insatiable desire to eat â—he inflammation of the â—entricle by which disease â—uther died loathing vomiting and infinite more torments and pains of this kind When the tartareous spirits possess the superiour part of the Ventricle namely the mouth then there arise the Orexia the burning the launcing and most cruel dolours by reason of the exquisite sense of the mouth of the Ventricle from whence rises the Cardialgia for the mouth of the Ventricle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or stomach viz. for the consent of the heart and the mouth of the Ventricle elsewhere is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or biting of the heart The mouth of the Ventricle hath a most exquisite sense for the many sinews collected there The Vitriol spirits oftentimes cause the Bulimia or Wolfish and Dog-like appetite There are not only excrementitious mucilaginous and tartareous impurities implanted in the Ventricle but Arsenical Auripigmental Antimonial and Inflammatory impurities find confluence there which little or not at all differs from the pleurisie A most burning Fever a great tossing of the body and restlesness unquenchable thirst a continual vomiting a frequent exolution of water watching and doting for the most part ensue this Inflammation As the Phthisis The
do voluntarily rise out of the Earth nor are submitted by the industry and labour of man but the seeds having attained a fit matrix they proceed unto the Generation of perfect Animals where they perfect the animals complementally The Laws and Foundations of Generations and Mixtions being demonstrated and the spiritual beginnings of Generations being explained and also the manners and differences of the Generations of Vegetables Minerals and Animals being adduced and inferred it remaineth that we handle of Transplantation superadded to Generation which happeneth to all the orders of Generation for those which put the light of Generation and Transplantation before things unknown in Philosophy and the art of Medicines the difference being rightly understood they prepare for us not any passage and entrance unto any vulgar Philosophy and art of Medicine insisting in qualities but unto Philosophy grounded on the Laws of Nature Certainly none can understand the death of things and the dissolution of the Soul from the Body which knows not throughly this difference and if he know not the death of things and the dissolution of the Soul from the Body that Physician will never attain unto the preparations of medicines for how shall he separate things from life which hath neither known life nor death and attributes the functions of life unto dead things what shall I say of the knowledge of Diseases Those which absolve this difference by qualities will never see how death comes to life or how by the Laws of Nature the dissolution of the Soul and Body happens But that we may come to the matter we say that Transplantation is a symptom of Generation but this is not to be understood in general of every Transplantation but in particular for Transplantation is considered Transplantation is twofold two ways for either it is subject to the will of man or it depends of Nature alone That which is subject to the industry and labour of man is perfected either by seed or cutting In this Transplantation whether it be effected by material seeds or incision two things are to be considered Times and Place It is behoveful to observe times in the Transplantation which is to be perfected by the ministery of hands because there are defined and set Periods in which the force of the seminal flowr appears in Plants and Vegetables for unless the flourishing and vigour of the flowr were transplanted by the time all labour were frustrate and Generation were in vain So some material seeds of Plants have their flourishings and vigour of the seminal flowr in the beginning of the Spring some in the midst some in the end some in Summer some in Autumn There is the same reason of trees which also have divers times of their flourishing and seminal vigour of the matter as the Quince-tree and the Damsin-trees are transplanted very seasonably after Winter the Cherry-trees and Almond-trees about Winter Mulberry-trees before the Springs Equinoctial It is also convenient that there be places fit for the Transplantations done by mans labour for except these subjects of mans Transplantations shall find a fit matrix the Transplantation will be frustrate and in vain whether it be done by incision or by seed Therefore it is behoveful to observe such places in our Transplantations as Nature affecteth and in which places Nature will bring forth freely and planteously fruits of this or that kind for every ground doth not bring forth all fruits some fruits Spring pleasantly in funny places some in shadowed places which Nature he observeth thus such like and such Plants being transplanted our Ladiesgloves love little Hillocks the Poplar the Willows and Arsemart love the Waters and Mercuries Fingers and Melilot as we have explained in the Generation of Vegetables We will apply this first Generation of Transplantation fitly in the difference of the Generation of Diseases The other kind of Transplantation is that which proceeds from Nature alone or it is that which is caused by the more effective tinctures of the Elements neither is it subject to mans sense For the right understanding of this Transplantation it is behoveful to explain the roots or tinctures of things which help both for Generation and Transplantation though the roots or effective tinctures the efficient causes of Transplantations have not been explained at any time of any Philosopher but they have adumbrated or over-shadowed them by figures metaphors and allegories And these tinctures are twofold either perfect and first or else corruptible and superadded The perfect and first Roots of things are Stars Seeds Roots of Transplantations and of the Philosophers they are called the tinctures of the Elements The seeds or roots of Transplantation shew the cause of death and dissolution The seeds or stars of Generation are explained both in Philosophy and in the difference of the Generation of natural things now we will handle of the Stars Seeds and Roots of Transplantation For we say that every Generation by the superadded Transplantation is removed and displaced from the degree of dignity whereby the Seeds Stars and Roots of Generation are lesse able to manifest their gifts and in-bred sciences for every transplanted Generation that is Transplantation of spirits doth not change unto the better but unto worse and the properties and gifts of every transplanted Generation namely of the spirits are much weakned by the superadded impressions and concurring Stars of Transplantation The tinctures of the Elements Stars Seeds and Roots of Transplantation or Impressions which cause Transplantation are the Being or Essence of poison which especially is found forth and appeareth in Minerals as in Arsenick Sulphur Vitriol Mercury Antimony and in Saturn In Vegetables as the Nettle Woolf-bane Hemlock and the Poppy But it is circumspectly to be observed that Transplantation in regard of the tinctures is twofold namely the universal and the particular The universal Transplantation is that which extends together unto all natural things by Gods curse for there is nothing free from Transplantation in the whole Nature of things but it hath impurities admixt and adjoyned unto the veins guests and tinctures of the Elements and unto the Stars Seeds and Roots of Transplantation for the Stars themselves as Job witnesseth are not free from this Transplantation neither Gold Silver or Gemms are excepted from this Transplantation though they seem to carry an anatomy of soundness or purity Paracelsus in Chirurgiamajore 2 Book cap. 8. of his 3 Tractate saith that Gold by his Nature hath Realgar or being of poison which is separated from her by Antimony for if that Gold wanted Realgar or poison as Paracelsus speaks the Spagirical Philosophers would not so strictly command that before the preparation of potable Gold that the body of Gold should be separated from poison and impurities So amongst Vegetables every body hath poison and those which be called alimental of Physicians That Vegetable which cannot be rightly separated neither by artificial or natural concoction of the Ventricle is the cause of many
cured by the medicines for rheum The pushing forth of bloud is diversly cured Take shepherds purse and the herb Polygon a like quantity let them be bruised and the juice extracted one or two drops of this being attracted or instilled stays the bloud Give in the too aboundant flux of the bloud four drops of the oil of iron in a draught of wine and it forthwith stays the bloud so the essence of Corals is exceeding good Thurnens in pisone lib. 4. cap. 4. cures the flux of bloud forth of the nostrils by the water of the stone Haematites and of Lapis Judaicus and Bergrota CHAP. XIV Of the hurts of the Mouth and Face and their Causes THe skin which covereth the Face because some of the flesh under it is more dry contracteth many Burning pushes hurts unusual unto the other parts of which kind are burning pushing or wheals which smell in the nose and other parts of the face with much unseemliness The Galenists affirm the cause to be a small and vicious bloud But Paracelsus de tribus primis substantiis cap. 5. saith The cause of them that all kinds of pushes are generated from Mercury and that the disease of pushes or blisters is caused from the essence of Mercury Lib. 6. Parag. cap. 3. he says that the Leprosie rises from blisters In the same book cap. 4. he saith that blisters are a sign of the red Leprosie lib. 2. param de origine morbor ex tribus substantiis cap. 5. he saith that Salt namely Mercurial Salt causes and generates the Alopecia the Pustula the Cicatrix the Condyloma or inflammation from bloud the Leprosie and the Morphaea In the same book cap. 4. he saith that the Blisters French Pox and the Leprosie have their beginning from Mercury The universal redness dispersed through the whole face without blisters is of this rank and order it is called of Physicians gutta rosacea Citron colour Pale White or any other bad colour is not to be ascribed to the distemperature of the Liver but to the radical moisture and Mercury of the Microcosm which causes like flowrs or colours as it is in the face for the colour of the face is nothing but the flowr of the Mercury of the Microcosm Paracel de ente Naturae at the end says that there is a great number of such deformities which because they hurt not the functions of the body are not amongst diseases but because they are altogether preternatural they are to be accounted symptoms The teeth are wont to be diversly affected sometime they are gag-teeth or hang forth sometime they are worn with eating or by violence of some external causes sometime they are made black and covered with silthy slime The teeth shake and are loose by the hurt of scraping them by the eating of hot and sweet things as also by breathing forth crudities and by smiting of an external cause and when the roots abound with moisture and their gumms are made looser then they are grievously pained and that almost for the pain which is in the membrane of the jawbone or in the sinew of the teeth or in the flesh of the teeth Thee phrastus lib. 12. parag fol. 16. saith that the pains of the teeth with their accidents are in the roots of the bone c. f. 417. The first cause of the ach of the teeth is from the sharpness of the Salt Sometime the gumms The swelling and growing forth of the Gumms Aphta are little pushes appearing in the superficies of the lips swell above measure that almost they cover the teeth especially in such as have soft and spongious gumms and such as live in moist and watery places as ship-men do The Aphta are Ulcers not very hollow insinuating it self into every part of the mouth palat gumms and into the sides of the tongue and into the root of it These are very common to children but in those come to age hot vapours cause them rising from the Liver sometime salt flegm doth cause them which flows from the head these are frequent in Fevers sometime they are without Fevers There are grievous ones observed of which kind are observed to be sometime when womens flowrs are supprest The cure Without controversie it is that these blisters are generated from impure bloud that is from Mercurial poison contained in the bloud seeing that like are cured with like and contraries with contraries all the kinds of blisters are altogether cured by the essence of Mercury This essence of Mercury is not so manifest and perspicuous in any metall as in Mercury and it is not so excellent and vertuous in any mineral as in Antimony there is none more effective in any wood than in Ivory Ash lignum sanctum and Juniper there is none more effective in herbs than in the herb Serpents Tongue Arsemart and Serpentine The same cures gutta rosacea but if it be inveterate it can be cured by no external medicaments The spots of the face and gutta rosacea are cured in the beginning with maids milk the description of which is thus Take of Lithargy of Silver â„¥ iij. pulverized of distilled Vinegar of best wine lb ss mix them strain it through a linen cloth mix this water with the water of Salt let this water be made of â„¥ of Salt well powdered Take also lbss of rain water mix them very well and you shall see that water white like milk which is called lac virginis wash gutta rosecea and the spots of the face with this milk Some boil Lithargy with distilled Vinegar some put to Ceruse which all are approved The cure of the bad colour in the face consists in the renovation and restauration of moisture Read of this cap. 16. de cura Phthisis The oil of Amber cures the intollerable pains of the teeth the rottenness of the mouth the Aphta and the corrupt gumms it also makes black teeth white Gumm from the wild Olive especially that which is biting helps the corroded and corrupt gumms Bartholomeus Anglu lib. 17. cap. 14. against the pains of the teeth saith anoint the affected part with the oil of St. Johnswort and lay a hot linen cloth to warm them If the pain come from distillations use three or four drops of the spirit of Vitriol in the spirit of wine and it consumes and disperses the flux Again pour another or two drops upon the affected tooth and forthwith the pain ceases A most present remedy against the pains of the teeth is take the seed of Mastick bruise it and put it into a linen cloth and put it to the teeth it hath a wonderful force and vertue of extracting clammy and slimy humors as also of taking away the pains Paracels lib. 12. Parag. 417. in cura dolorum dentium c. CHAP. XV. Of the Diseases Causes and Symptoms of the Tongue and Jaws THe tongue which is an excellent member The Psellotis is a preternatural affect when as man omitteth some